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The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: 6513occ ()
Date: December 09, 2015 02:18PM

Interesting piece in Washingtonian about WMATA's failures, including how some train operators allegedly break the trains on purpose for revenge on higher-ups who they felt treated them badly.

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/transportation/why-does-metro-suck-dangerous-accidents-escalator-outages.php

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: The Nog Factor ()
Date: December 09, 2015 03:21PM

Letting nogs run anything is a good way to ruin it. Nogs may not have been at the top of Metro, but they are 90+% of Metro workers, and it shows.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: easy answer ()
Date: December 09, 2015 05:12PM

I've never seen a white Metro employee.................all niggers.
case closed.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: MetroGrownTerror ()
Date: December 09, 2015 05:32PM

Metro sabatoge!

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Td7dH ()
Date: December 09, 2015 05:41PM

Some of the Station Manager Nogs make like $150-200k a year.

Unions, OT and so forth.

They hang out in the station offices and sleep, watch TV and ignore what goes on at the station.

If you have a problem they act like you are inconveniencing them.

Must be a nice way of life for a stupid Nog.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: December 09, 2015 06:07PM

It's a shame that someone found an article that attempts to explain how Metro has gotten in such deplorable condition, and all some of you can do is use it as an excuse for your racist rants. My guess is none of you bothered to read the article.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: UFkXv ()
Date: December 09, 2015 06:29PM

If the Nogs had a brain and were held accountable, then things would be very different.

Metro would still have problems, it is not funded correctly, but there is a lot of wasted money, especially on the Nogs.

Hell a Metro train driver drove the damn train car through the door a the maintenance facility because someone did not open the door for them.

The new rail cars are a disaster, they should never have been purchased from a company that had never built rail cars. 1 year after delivery they were still trying to sort out problems while the cars just sat.

Again, no accountability and lack of brains then just add a lot of lazy overpaid people and poor funding and you have METRO!

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Driscotol ()
Date: December 09, 2015 06:47PM

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> It's a shame that someone found an article that
> attempts to explain how Metro has gotten in such
> deplorable condition, and all some of you can do
> is use it as an excuse for your racist rants. My
> guess is none of you bothered to read the article.

What more would you expect from the IQ < 20 racist wing of FFXU. Fucktards speak only to their own abysmal ignorance and well-deserved hatred of themselves.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Yp73n ()
Date: December 09, 2015 07:02PM

If any of you idiots that think Metro's problems are not due to the Nogs, take a ride, listen to the intecoms, listen to the radio traffic.

The ROCC is loaded with Nogs, was originally located in Landover. Who in their right mind that half a brain would want to work in Landover?

The NOG's are the root of the problem. They want to keep the ROCC understaffed so they can make $200k plus with no brain in their head. They are lazy and have no interest in safety. The reason there written rules are not followed because most of them cannot read.

METRO needs to higher a complete replacement staff for for the ROCC, train them in parallel off site, then fire every single piece of dead wood in the ROCC, have arm security and then cut the new staff into the ROCC. Then get rid of the bitches that break or dump trains.

From there they then need to look at safety, maintenance and find a steady revenue stream from DC, MD and VA. The problem with METRO is it was Federally build then handed over to 3 localities with no long term revenue stream.

Hard enough to get one group to agree on funding much less 3.

METRO is and will always be a crap shop until good leadership rids the system of the lazy, dead wood Nogs that have MASSIVE attitude and are dumb a stumps.

Is anything run by Nogs ever turn out well?

Hell Chicago is about to loose their Golden Nog tonight!

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Spot the dumbfuck ()
Date: December 09, 2015 07:12PM

Yp73n Wrote:
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> METRO needs to higher a complete replacement staff...

LOL! I'm thinking that's NEVER going to include you.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Ride At Your Own Risk ()
Date: December 09, 2015 07:14PM

Everyone knows what the problem with Metro is, and there is nothing that can be done to fix it.

I remember riding Metro back in 1976 for the Forth of July for the first time. Bright, Shiny, and clean.

Can you guess what the problem is?

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Yp73n ()
Date: December 09, 2015 07:20PM

Spot the dumbfuck Wrote:
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> Yp73n Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > METRO needs to higher a complete
> replacement staff...
>
> LOL! I'm thinking that's NEVER going to include
> you.

Yep, typo/auto correct, stuff happens. Oh well, I guess your smart ass has NEVER made a mistake in your life?

First I would not take on the challenge unless it was on MY terms. The complete replacement staff would be for the ROCC. I have started up a number of Operation Centers, hired the complete staff, had successful cut overs from long time Ops centers and do now put with with crap from the Day Care Center.

You would not be on my short list!

I think as others have said, most of METRO's problems are OBVIOUS!

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Thanks, Greg Kalleres ()
Date: December 09, 2015 07:21PM

Driscotol Wrote:
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> (whatever)

Cool reference (I assume) to HONKY, the OnStage-in-America play that's been showing on PBS the past couple of weeks. It's about the best contemporary treatment of race that I've seen. It would be well worth anybody's time to check the listings and catch it somewhere sometime.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Spot the dumbfuck ()
Date: December 09, 2015 07:26PM

Yp73n Wrote:
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> I think as others have said, most of METRO's problems are OBVIOUS!

Metro suffers from a shortage of funds, not a shortage of assholes. If you were really Mr. All-That Q. Bigshot, you'd have already been hired and put in charge of the place. But no...

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: December 09, 2015 08:24PM

Yp73n Wrote:
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> First I would not take on the challenge unless it
> was on MY terms. The complete replacement staff
> would be for the ROCC. I have started up a number
> of Operation Centers, hired the complete staff,
> had successful cut overs from long time Ops
> centers and do now put with with crap from the Day
> Care Center.

Clearly has no fucking idea what he is talking about.

Firing the entire ROCC would be like Reagan firing the striking flight controllers, except that unlike Reagan you wouldn't have scabs, trained supervisors and military flight controllers to step in and do the work until you could hire and train new staff. Even with those resources air passenger service was disrupted for some time. Sure the ROCC isn't working with planes in the air, but it requires a great deal more training than what you'd need to be a school crossing guard too. If Metro could raid freight rail systems and other transit rail systems for personnel (probably meaning offering them much higher pay), you'd still have to train them on how to operate the Metro system. So fire all those ROCC staff, watch operations be fucked up for several months, then see what your ridership numbers are like.

If Metro is to be salvaged, radical action is required. Stupid action like firing everyone at ROCC is not. What needs to happen at Metro is that EVERYONE affiliated with the organization has to understand that Metro, and by extension their positions at Metro, should exist for one purpose only: TO MOVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE AS QUICKLY, CONVENIENTLY, SAFELY AND INEXPENSIVELY AS POSSIBLE FROM ONE POINT TO ANOTHER. That applies to members of the Metro Board, to senior and lower level management at Metro, to employees of Metro and to those who oversee grievance procedures at Metro. Virtually all of Metro's current problems can be traced to the failure to follow that principal.

Of course for this to happen the jurisdictions that Metrorail serves need to buy into this as well.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Yp73n ()
Date: December 09, 2015 09:11PM

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> Yp73n Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > First I would not take on the challenge unless
> it
> > was on MY terms. The complete replacement staff
> > would be for the ROCC. I have started up a
> number
> > of Operation Centers, hired the complete staff,
> > had successful cut overs from long time Ops
> > centers and do now put with with crap from the
> Day
> > Care Center.
>
> Clearly has no fucking idea what he is talking
> about.
>
> Firing the entire ROCC would be like Reagan firing
> the striking flight controllers, except that
> unlike Reagan you wouldn't have scabs, trained
> supervisors and military flight controllers to
> step in and do the work until you could hire and
> train new staff. Even with those resources air
> passenger service was disrupted for some time.
> Sure the ROCC isn't working with planes in the
> air, but it requires a great deal more training
> than what you'd need to be a school crossing guard
> too. If Metro could raid freight rail systems and
> other transit rail systems for personnel (probably
> meaning offering them much higher pay), you'd
> still have to train them on how to operate the
> Metro system. So fire all those ROCC staff, watch
> operations be fucked up for several months, then
> see what your ridership numbers are like.
>
> If Metro is to be salvaged, radical action is
> required. Stupid action like firing everyone at
> ROCC is not. What needs to happen at Metro is
> that EVERYONE affiliated with the organization has
> to understand that Metro, and by extension their
> positions at Metro, should exist for one purpose
> only: TO MOVE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE AS
> QUICKLY, CONVENIENTLY, SAFELY AND INEXPENSIVELY AS
> POSSIBLE FROM ONE POINT TO ANOTHER. That applies
> to members of the Metro Board, to senior and lower
> level management at Metro, to employees of Metro
> and to those who oversee grievance procedures at
> Metro. Virtually all of Metro's current problems
> can be traced to the failure to follow that
> principal.
>
> Of course for this to happen the jurisdictions
> that Metrorail serves need to buy into this as
> well.


Money or not, you have a MAJOR safety problem that needs to be addressed now, not in the future.

But you obviously did either fully read or understand the game plan.

Build a 2nd Ops Center or at least have the computers and comm gear. Higher an entire new staff, properly and fully train them. Then you actually have a full complement of trained staff that will replace the loosers in the current Ops center.

Is there risk, yes, but it can be controlled.

Will there be some learning curve, yes, but you cut over on a long weekend or a less busy time.

This is the only way to rid the Ops center of the poisoned turds that are running the Ops ground into ground.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Top MBA ()
Date: December 09, 2015 10:09PM

It's the nogs. They are lazy and stupid. End of story. Nothing you can do about it until Metro goes bankrupt and comes under complete federal custodialship.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: DailyRider ()
Date: December 09, 2015 10:47PM

It's totally the nogs and it's especially Jackie Jeter. Niggers lucky enough to get a WMATA job treat it like their chance to get back at whitey for whatever injustice they perceive instead of doing their fucking job.

Fuck up white people's day, get paid cash money...HOLLA!!!!!!!!!


A LttE by Jeter in response to this scathing Washinton Times article about Metro incompetence, comprised mostly of quotes from current or former Metro employees:

Letter to the Editor of the Washington Times
By Jackie Jeter, President, Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 689

Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 689 strongly condemns the racist diatribe, “Inept get promoted, … capable get buried” (Mar. 27, 2012). We unequivocally reject the outrageous aspersion that Metro’s majority black workforce is incompetent. We also reject, and vehemently deny, the sentiment that this union has participated in or condoned discriminant behavior towards any individual or group of individuals. We celebrate diversity in all forms.

Each day, an estimated 700,000 commuters and visitors ride Metro rail and Metro bus. Metro is the second largest public transit system in America. A system of this large capacity requires unrelenting dedication and specialized skills to function. The system simply would not operate without Metro workers performing their jobs with the utmost competence and focus on service, reliability and safety. I am proud of the work they do.

Since the mid-19th century, unions have played a crucial role in advancing the rights and protections of American workers. Local 689 is a proud member of the nation’s labor movement. Our union has fought for civil rights, women’s rights, and workers rights. We stand by our workers unapologetically in solidarity with their commitment to deliver high quality services to the riding public.

Metro workers are deeply rooted in the Washington metro region. Most of the rank-and-file workers live in Metro’s service area—the District of Columbia, suburban Maryland, and northern Virginia. Contrary to your story, we reflect the region’s diverse demographics.

The Washington Times clearly crossed the line of ethical journalism with its propaganda piece. We urge the newspaper to practice the principles of truthfulness, accuracy, impartiality, fairness and objectivity at all times.

We demand an apology for the racist shade cast on our members.

Jackie Jeter, President
Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 689
Representing more than 11,000 Metro workers


Niggers ruined Metro.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: December 09, 2015 10:48PM

Yp73n Wrote:
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> But you obviously did either fully read or
> understand the game plan.

I read and understood what you wrote. And from what you wrote it appears you think replacing ROCC would be comparable to replacing a call center.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: DailyRider ()
Date: December 09, 2015 10:50PM

Oh, and Metro is also where nigger clowns like Omari June can not only keep a job, but get continuously promoted.

This lawsuit will be the funniest thing you read all week and leave you shaking your head that it actually happened: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1868370-wmata-lawsuit.html

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Budd ()
Date: December 09, 2015 11:00PM

If white people have something nice, it's just fact of life that niggers will come along and fuck it up EVERY SINGLE TIME!

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: causeican ()
Date: December 09, 2015 11:22PM

"Since the mid-19th century...”? I think the Metro Rep misspoke.

But it’s the "We demand an apology for the racist shade cast on our members.” that bothers me. I hate it when people apologize for saying what they think. I hope the Times does NOT.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Just another version of Detroit! ()
Date: December 10, 2015 08:46AM

UFkXv Wrote:
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> If the Nogs had a brain and were held accountable,
> then things would be very different.
>
> Metro would still have problems, it is not funded
> correctly, but there is a lot of wasted money,
> especially on the Nogs.
>
> Hell a Metro train driver drove the damn train car
> through the door a the maintenance facility
> because someone did not open the door for them.
>
> The new rail cars are a disaster, they should
> never have been purchased from a company that had
> never built rail cars. 1 year after delivery they
> were still trying to sort out problems while the
> cars just sat.
>
> Again, no accountability and lack of brains then
> just add a lot of lazy overpaid people and poor
> funding and you have METRO!


If anyone knows the true history about how the U.S. Auto industry and the city of Detroit got dragged down into the gutter, then you know very well what is going on with the DC Metro.
The Black Caucus has been given too much power in this country. They, literally, are NEVER truly held accountable in their positions of employment. The instant any given employer tries to, the entire Black Caucus is screaming disrciminant racism against them.
I will never forget trying to utilize the DC Metro bus and rail system when it opened up 40+ years ago thruout the DC area. Maryland and Virginia side as well.
The buses were and still are NEVER 'on time'. Either they would be too late, too early, or never show up at all. Being on time to a work site was a nightmare. When the rail opened up, it quickly became so evident that the trains were never going to be on schedule. So you would just simply have to habit adding 30-40 minutes to any given trip to get there on time, having to wait on any given train that might be pulling thru the given station.
You would give up calling and complaining as well. It would then and still does take all day just to get the right person on the line, they would, obviously, simply pretend they were going to get the punctuality issue resolved. Then you wait and wait for months and nothing ever changes from above described. Of course, 9 out of 10 emoloyees, even back then, were 'of color' African Americans.
Starting pay for the average positions or drivers back then was quite considerably higher than most jobs available anywhere. Like $17 hour, plus great benefits. Health care. The whole enchilada. Of course, it is even better, today. The pay and bennies. Yet, the Black Caucus persists in dragging down into the gutter every employer they end up dominating with their bully racist agenda. The same old racist song and racist dance.
I was not aware of these recent developments until just now reading the attached to this thread article. The only Metro system on the planet being oversited by the feds? Absolutely did not surprise or phase me in the least. After what I have seen over the decades since they got away with sacking or Capitol City, DC in the late '60's, with the government sitting back and dong nothing to stop it, none of this will ever phase or surprise me. Or any baby boomer, I would imagine.
If no one is noticing, by the way, the Black Caucus has been a major contributor to the demise of the U.S. economy, overall. They will never work at a profit for ANY employer. They want and get, freely, free money for, basically, doing nothing. Just like Thomas Jefferson wrote in his memoirs, 'When put to any given task, they move like they have ice cold blood running thru their veins'. And do we ever see, even today, anything different about most/too many of them?
Our own president is black now. And he is, as well, the major cause of a huge negative effect impact on this nations economy.
A good guess is, I would say, any given city, for instance, Memphis, Tenn., that is 85% black, is historically in heavy public indebtness. And always will be. As long as city's like it are populated by blacks. Groping for federal funding at every turn at the additional expense to the entire nation.
It is never going to end. It is never going to get better. Only worse. As long as our government(s?) keep giving the blacks a free ruling reign in what they do as a people. Always taking in more money than they ever really earn. And, boy, are they very talented in doing so. Undoubtedly driven by their endless racist agenda in their hate for the caucasion race.
If you ask me, they really need to start locking them up full term for their any given crimes from now on. And start some real punishments for them and all criminals alike. Putting them, as the criminals they are, to work. Bring back 'the chain gangs'. And if they don't work, then you punish them accordingly. No 'privileges'. Put them in their prison cells with no liberties what so ever. Prisons these days are like a walk in the park. Plenty of food. High grade medical care. 'The works'. All, additionally, at the taxpayers expense?
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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Jesus fuck! ()
Date: December 10, 2015 09:11AM

Yp73n Wrote:
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> Money or not, you have a MAJOR safety problem that
> needs to be addressed now, not in the future.

That COSTS MONEY, you dumbshit. Where is it supposed to come from? There are major funding shortfalls undermining safety and service efforts already. You can't go anywhere or do anything here without providing MORE MONEY. More of your stupid-ass juvenile whining isn't going to accomplish a damned thing.

> Higher an entire new staff...

Again? Come on, Dumbo. It's H-I-R-E. Did you ever finish the fourth grade?

> Then you actually have a full complement of trained staff
> that will replace the loosers in the current Ops center.

People who lose are called "losers". Go look in the mirror for an example. If you can't manage to write a hundred words without botching the spelling of multiple common ones, what reason would anyone have to pay attention to a single thing you say.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: LOL.... ()
Date: December 10, 2015 09:16AM

Top MBA Wrote:
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> It's the nogs. They are lazy and stupid.

It's the stupid-shit racists. The ones who hate themselves so much. Had all that white privilege to benefit from and STILL ended up as a deadbeat nothing. Way to go, fumble-fuck.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: LOL.... ()
Date: December 10, 2015 09:25AM

DailyRider Wrote:
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> Niggers ruined Metro.

Tax-cutting, funding-slashing Republican assholes are what have hampered Metro. Metro was lauded as the top public transit system in the nation in 1988. They had unions then. They had a majority black workforce What has changed since then? The growing influence of stupid-ass tax-cutting TEA Party extremists and their psychotic fear of and hatred for public anything. That's what's been and still is the entire problem here. Not enough money, and too many deluded moron assholes, of which you would plainly be one.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Spot the dumbfuck ()
Date: December 10, 2015 09:39AM

Just another version of Detroit! Wrote:
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> If anyone knows the true history about how the U.S. Auto industry
> and the city of Detroit got dragged down into the gutter, then you
> know very well what is going on with the DC Metro.

The problems of the US auto industry were produced by some decades of horribly inept decision-making by top industry executives combined with the dumb-ass policies of the Bush-43 administration that led us into the Great Recession, a calamity that brought up short what were on-going industry efforts to correct for those earlier errors.

> The Black Caucus has been given too much power in this country.

They haven't been given any power at all. What's wrong with you? You should seek professional help. And perhaps a counseling group for the terminally stupid.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: cease the debate ()
Date: December 10, 2015 10:09AM

It is the malice and incompetence of NOGS that makes Metro as bad as it is. See, you can explain it in one sentence.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Worse than I thought ()
Date: December 10, 2015 10:15AM

It appears to be the case that there might well be no black person at all who is more stupid than you.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: LULZ.... ()
Date: December 10, 2015 12:17PM

LOL.... Wrote:
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> DailyRider Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Niggers ruined Metro.
>
> Tax-cutting, funding-slashing Republican assholes
> are what have hampered Metro. Metro was lauded as
> the top public transit system in the nation in
> 1988. They had unions then. They had a majority
> black workforce What has changed since then? The
> growing influence of stupid-ass tax-cutting TEA
> Party extremists and their psychotic fear of and
> hatred for public anything. That's what's been
> and still is the entire problem here. Not enough
> money, and too many deluded moron assholes, of
> which you would plainly be one.


^ LOL

What a fucking MORON!

Off your meds today Grandpa?

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: revenues matter ()
Date: December 10, 2015 12:22PM

LOL.... Wrote:
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> Tax-cutting, funding-slashing Republican assholes
> are what have hampered Metro. Metro was lauded as
> the top public transit system in the nation in
> 1988. They had unions then. They had a majority
> black workforce What has changed since then? The
> growing influence of stupid-ass tax-cutting TEA
> Party extremists and their psychotic fear of and
> hatred for public anything. That's what's been
> and still is the entire problem here. Not enough
> money, and too many deluded moron assholes, of
> which you would plainly be one.


Metro's costs are growing faster than revenues.

While transit is a vital service in our region and one that's worth paying for, it's not realistic for local governments to keep paying a larger and larger share of their own budgets into this one service when cost growth exceeds inflation or the level of growth in local GDP.

If current trends continue, WMATA's costs will grow 6% a year while revenues only grow 1% a year.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: LOL.... ()
Date: December 10, 2015 12:42PM

LULZ.... Wrote:
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> ^ LOL What a fucking MORON! Off your meds today Grandpa?

Wet the bed again last night, Junior? Here's a tip for when you grow up -- have a clue before you open your dumbass mouth.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Yp73n ()
Date: December 10, 2015 12:45PM

Jesus fuck! Wrote:
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> Yp73n Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Money or not, you have a MAJOR safety problem
> that
> > needs to be addressed now, not in the future.
>
> That COSTS MONEY, you dumbshit. Where is it
> supposed to come from? There are major funding
> shortfalls undermining safety and service efforts
> already. You can't go anywhere or do anything
> here without providing MORE MONEY. More of your
> stupid-ass juvenile whining isn't going to
> accomplish a damned thing.
>
> > Higher an entire new staff...
>
> Again? Come on, Dumbo. It's H-I-R-E. Did you
> ever finish the fourth grade?
>
> > Then you actually have a full complement of
> trained staff
> > that will replace the loosers in the
> current Ops center.
>
> People who lose are called "losers". Go look in
> the mirror for an example. If you can't manage to
> write a hundred words without botching the
> spelling of multiple common ones, what reason
> would anyone have to pay attention to a single
> thing you say.

Just another jackass you are.

Could care less about spelling mistakes, I am not fully proof reading anything I post on the under ground for jerks like you.

The problem is the union and the Nogs. The ROCC needs to be cleaned out. If there is an off site disaster recovery center, great, you have an easy way to start the process. If there is not an off site disaster recovery center METRO is in a world of hurt and it in trouble. The 2nd largest transit group in the country is as usual a typical DC pile of crap.


Money, well you can do a lot without money, you can do a lot with moving money around. Money, money, money is what everyone cries about. There is PLENTY of money in METRO to me moved around, something will have to take a back seat. Safety and reliable operations is the most important item that needs to be addressed.

Every accident that has occurred should have been avoided.

The culture in the ROCC is toxic, I have seen and been in exactly these environments and the problem is mostly due to Unionization, but then it is followed closely be attitude. If the flunkies in the ROCC wanted one of the current employees sons to get a job, it would work out just right. The son would be schooled on how to work the system. Would do exactly as the friends and family dictates things otherwise he will be out the door like all of those before him.

If the parking lot really is full of expensive cars, which I would bet it is, this tells you there are big problems without even entering the Ops Center doors.

I ride the METRO as little as possible, I have no interest in becoming a statistic.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: LOL.... ()
Date: December 10, 2015 01:10PM

revenues matter Wrote:
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> Metro's costs are growing faster than revenues.

So what? What idiotic implications would you see in that? Metro is a public utility. One that is uniquely tied to the economic well-being of the entire region.

> While transit is a vital service in our region and
> one that's worth paying for, it's not realistic
> for local governments to keep paying a larger and
> larger share of their own budgets into this one
> service when cost growth exceeds inflation or the
> level of growth in local GDP.

There is no tie between Metro and ANY of that. As long as localities are stupidly set up as principal sources of Metro funding, they will need to pony up whatever is needed to support the system regardless of ups or downs or whatever else they might think their other demands and priorities are. The clear solution here is to establish a regional tax that provides Metro with a reliable, predictable, dedicated stream of funding. Write your representatives and tell them to get on the ball here.

> If current trends continue, WMATA's costs will grow 6% a year
> while revenues only grow 1% a year.

In that case, revenues would plainly need to grow, just as they should have grown but didn't over the past decade or so. Starving the system to death is a really bad idea.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Jesus fuck! ()
Date: December 10, 2015 01:22PM

Yp73n Wrote:
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> Just another jackass you are.

Go fuck yourself, you worthless piece of crap. Your repeated stooge-grade spelling errors are highlighted because they establish only too plainly the levels of abject fucking ignorance that you are operating from. You don't in fact know shit from shinola about Metro. You are just a dropout racist assfuck who can't find a decent job. I doubt that's going to be changing anytime soon, so enjoy your life of despair and dumpster-diving.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: jFyYM ()
Date: December 10, 2015 01:23PM

Jesus fuck! Wrote:
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> Yp73n Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Just another jackass you are.
>
> Go fuck yourself, you worthless piece of crap.
> Your repeated stooge-grade spelling errors are
> highlighted because they establish only too
> plainly the levels of abject fucking ignorance
> that you are operating from. You don't in fact
> know shit from shinola about Metro. You are just
> a dropout racist assfuck who can't find a decent
> job. I doubt that's going to be changing anytime
> soon, so enjoy your life of despair and
> dumpster-diving.

It's warm out today - is Mom's basement getting too hot for you?

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: wisemove ()
Date: December 10, 2015 03:21PM

Arlington County is starting to operate Art buses on what used to be metro routes. For example, the new 55, will replace the 3A. The 55 will run almost twice as often and cost the county no additional money. Metro is overpriced incompetence. Fairfax may want to look into replacing metro routes with Fairfax Connector buses as they could probably double the service at the same cost.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: <img src="____________________"> ()
Date: December 11, 2015 05:36AM

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: reen fin ()
Date: December 11, 2015 06:16AM

Why would any white person get on one of these trains with nigger operators, nigger station managers, and nigger kids rampaging through, stealing shit and harassing people?
Pay a little more in gas and drive or carpool in to work. It will save you the aggravation of dealing with niggers.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: dr. obvious ()
Date: December 11, 2015 10:07AM

reen fin Wrote:
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> Why would any white person get on one of these
> trains with nigger operators, nigger station
> managers, and nigger kids rampaging through,
> stealing shit and harassing people?
> Pay a little more in gas and drive or carpool in
> to work. It will save you the aggravation of
> dealing with niggers.


Great logic, in fact, why live on a planet with black people?

You should just kill yourself and end the aggravation.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: LnyT6 ()
Date: December 11, 2015 10:11AM

Picture of Union Station Manager hard at work earning about $175k per year. Probably never went to college and drives a nicer car than you or I.

Gotta love this place.

Funny how any white people that get hired are discriminated against and basically run out the door. White folks are too smart to try and complain.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Actually.... ()
Date: December 11, 2015 10:37AM

White people are simply black people who didn't turn out right.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: The many faces of Eve ()
Date: December 11, 2015 10:47AM

Actually.... Wrote:
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> White people are simply black people who didn't turn out right.

This is of course true. Every single person alive in the world today is descended from the same black woman who lived in East Africa between 100 and 200 thousand years ago.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: It's a hard nog life ()
Date: December 11, 2015 12:03PM

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Date: December 11, 2015 02:03PM

This has nothing to do with race.

Fun fact: In all of railroading history, most of its employees have been African American. Not many people talk about it anymore but historically, railroads were built and run on the strength and reputation of African Americans.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Mike O'Meara Show Fan ()
Date: December 11, 2015 06:31PM

Never forget.

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Csx ()
Date: December 11, 2015 06:39PM

Johnny Cakes Bishop Wrote:
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> This has nothing to do with race.
>
> Fun fact: In all of railroading history, most of
> its employees have been African American. Not
> many people talk about it anymore but
> historically, railroads were built and run on the
> strength and reputation of African Americans.

Fun fact: anyone can write anything and label or a "fact".

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: Just see 'em whine ()
Date: December 11, 2015 06:58PM

Actually.... Wrote:
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> White people are simply black people who didn't turn out right.

And Lord, don't the whiteys know it!

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Re: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad
Posted by: hneNY ()
Date: December 11, 2015 07:22PM

The subway cars in Stockholm stops so smooth. No throwup feeling.

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